November 26

43 BCE: The Second Triumvirate alliance of Gaius Julius
Caesar Octavianus (“Octavian”, later “Caesar Augustus”),
Marcus Aemilius Lepidus, and Mark Antony is formed. This power sharing
arrangement would fall apart. Octavian would defeat Mar…

November 21

456 BCE (20th of Kislev, 3306): Ezra called together all the men of Judah
and Benjamin and told them that they would have to give up their foreign born
wives.  This was part of an attempt by
the returning exiles to purify and strength…

November 8

30: Birthdate of Marcus Cocceius
Nerva, the Roman Emperor who changed the way in which the special tax on Jews
was collected so that would not be the humiliating experience created by his
Flavian predecessors.

641: “Jews were permitted to…

November 7

305 B.C.E.: Ptolemy, a Macedonian general who
had fought by the side of Alexander the Great, became King of Egypt.  Alexander’s empire broke into three parts
after his death.  Jerusalem and Judea
came under the sway of the Ptolemy…

November 4

1053: Today, “according
to a document preserved in the archives of the Cathedral of Leon, the Infanta
D. Fronilda, daughter of D. Pelayo, who restored Christian supremacy after the
invasion of the Saracens, purchased, from the Jew Joseph b….

November 3

166 BCE (15th of
Cheshvan, 3595): Mattathias ben Yochanan passed away.

361: Roman Emperor
Constantius II died. Constantius II enhanced the anti-Jewish policies begun by
his father. Under his rule, converting to Judaism became a combination…

November
1

1179:
Philip II is crowned King of France. In 1180, Phillip would order the arrest of
all Jews living in his realm based on charges of ritual murder. It should come
as no surprise that two years later, in 1182 Phillip confiscated all of the…